AppleInsider StaffApple has reportedly canceled its opening keynote address at Apple Expo Paris, according to the event's Web site.
As recently as last week, the Apple Expo Web site stated that the Apple Expo 2005 Keynote presentation would be held at the Palais des Congrès in Paris, on Tuesday, 20 September at 10:00 am.
Visitors were encouraged to "register for this special event and receive your K-marked entry badge for the Keynote and Apple Expo."
However, this weekend show organizers changed the Web site to read "Apple Expo will not feature a formal keynote presentation at Palais des Congrès."
A representative for Apple Expo told The Mac Observer that show organizers were informed of Jobs' decision to back out of the keynote presentation over the weekend.
No formal explanation for the change in plans has been provided at this time.
According to reliable sources, at one point Apple was planning to introduce as many as three new PowerPC-based Macintosh models at the show, including new PowerBook G4 laptops. The new Macs are slated to include a fresh breed of processors from IBM and Freescale, which have caused, and may continue to cause, delays.
Jobs, along with several members of Apple's executive team, are still expected to attend the expo.
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Macworld is reporting from Apple that there will be no formal presentation at the Paris Mac Expo. The executives from Apple including Steve Jobs will be attending but there will be no Keynote presentation.
http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/09...php?lsrc=mwrss
What we expected at Paris was a Powerbook update with the new 7448 cpu. This would be a substantial boost to keep the line alive until the switch starts.
Now it seems that this update was postponed. Or cancelled. Or Jobs does not want to face the public (non-developers) in view of the Intel transition. Whatever.
looks like september will be interestin, huh? in a few days, sep 7th announcment and then sep 20th (my birthday! i'll be 27 !!) paris.
well, also, sep 11th, 4th year anniversary. yup, 4 years on.
anyway i have a friend from malaysistan going to visit his in-laws in the bay area for a whole month from this weekend. if apple comes up with anything good, and i beg my dad hard enough , he just might be flying back with a new ipod or powerbook dualcore 7448.... wow. the grey side clouds this upcoming moon cycle.....
so no keynote, maybe not such a big deal, who thinks they'll update the towers anyway, say tomorrow or next tuesday, steve wouldn't want to make a big deal of the IBM dual core anyway... why shout about technology you're about to ditch, might as well roll them out and just be at the expo to talk up the future of apple...
maybe because he had to "set the RDF to 11" for wwdc he has to regenerate his RDF reserves... macworld sf 2006, RDF back on full charge. hopefully \
...he just might be flying back with a new ipod or powerbook dualcore 7448.... :???
Stop dreaming, there is no such thing like dual core 7448 . 8641D is the dual core gold, but I don't see it in a Powerbook.